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Rising Japanese scientist faked heralded stem cell research, lab says
The images of DNA fragments, the lab says, were either doctored or entirely fabricated.
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Researchers reverse a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene
Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins, MIT researchers have cured mice of a rare liver disorder caused by a single genetic mutation.
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Growing up poor is bad for your DNA
A rough childhood doesn’t just make you grow up faster; it could actually make your body grow old early. In research studying how day-to-day circumstances affect our DNA, researchers have found evidence that social stresses from poverty could wear down children’s genes, making them vulnerable to cancer and age-related disorders at an earlier age.
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Hitler May Have Married a Jew, DNA Study Suggests
Adolf Hitler may have “unwittingly” married a Jewish woman, according to a controversial UK television documentary. DNA analysis of hair samples from a hairbrush claimed to belong to Eva Braun, Hitler’s long-term mistress who married the Nazi dictator hours before their joint suicide, are said to contain a specific sequence passed through the maternal line which hints at Jewish roots.
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DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches
A swarm of nanobots made of DNA can store molecules in their folds and deliver them to specific cells by performing complex calculations.
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An elderly organ in a living animal has been regenerated into a youthful state for the first time, UK researchers say
A team at the University of Edinburgh managed to rejuvenate the organ in mice by manipulating DNA. Experts said the study was likely to have "broad implications" for regenerative medicine. The thymus, which sits near the heart, produces T-cells to fight off infection.
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Scientists regenerate organ in mice in world-first breakthrough
Results on regenerated thymus in very old mice potentially open way for helping humans live longer
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Tiny, Logical Robots Injected into Cockroaches
Nanotechnology just got a little bit smarter. At the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, Ido Bachelet led a team of scientists in building tiny robots that can respond to chemical cues and operate inside a living animal. More than that, they can operate as logic gates, essentially acting as real computers.
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It only took 35 years for flesh-eating bacteria to become an infectious terror
All it took for flesh-eating bacteria to go from harmless organisms to gruesome infectious pathogens was four mutations and about 35 years. That's what an international group of researchers announced today in a study that outside experts are calling the largest bacterial genome paper ever published.
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Bullying's Terrible Legacy: How Childhood Stress Can Change Our Genes Forever
The memories of seventh grade have mostly receded from view for most of us. How well can you recall the faces of your fellow students? Can you summon the names of the teachers, the secretary, and the principal? Can you hear the way the bell sounded? How about the smell of the cafeteria on sloppy-joe day? The ache of your first crush? The panic of finding yourself in the bathroom at the same time as the school bully?
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In a cloning first, scientists create stem cells from adults
Scientists have moved a step closer to the goal of creating stem cells perfectly matched to a patient's DNA in order to treat diseases, they announced on Thursday.
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DNA cube programmed for an exclusive reveal
Scientists in Canada have made DNA cubes that are programmed to unzip and reveal molecules locked inside them in response to a carefully chosen trigger. Hanadi Sleiman and colleagues at McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, designed the cubes to release the drug cargo they might be carrying only in diseased cells and not normal cells.
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These People Might Look Odd. But Take A Closer Look... It's Not What You Think. At All.
Photographer Ulric Collette’s series of photos called Portraits Genetiques (Genetic Portraits) shows just how similar family members are. He splits the photos down the middle and splices together faces of family members. Mothers, daughters, fathers and brothers… all of them seem so similar when you put them side-by-side. These photos show you just how powerful genetics are. It’s amazing.
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DNA 'switches' separate Neanderthals from modern humans: study
How can creatures as different in body and mind as present-day humans and their extinct Neanderthal cousins be 99.84 percent identical genetically?
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Ancient DNA offers clues to how barnyard chickens came to be
Ancient DNA adds a twist to the story of how barnyard chickens came to be, finds a study to be published April 21 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Analyzing DNA from the bones of chickens that lived 200-2300 years ago in Europe, researchers report that just a few hundred years ago domestic chickens may have looked far different from the chickens we know today.
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The Google of Spit
Anne Wojcicki wants to bring health care into its sci-fi, Big Data era. First, she’ll need your DNA. Then comes vanquishing the FDA.
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Swedes open coffin of 850-year-old king
Scientists pried open the 850-year-old casket of King Erik the Holy on Wednesday, hoping to find out more about the king, his crown, and his eating habits.
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Implant Injects DNA Into Ear, Improves Hearing
Many people with profound hearing loss have been helped by devices called cochlear implants, but their hearing is still far from normal. They often have trouble distinguishing different musical pitches, for example, or hearing a conversation in a noisy room. Now, researchers have found a clever way of using cochlear implants to deliver new genes into the ear—a therapy that, in guinea pigs, dramatically improves hearing.
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Family Tree Of Pertussis Traced, Could Lead To Better Vaccine
Scientists tracking the ancestry of whooping cough say it arose abruptly in humans about 500 years ago, caused by a mutated bacterium that once lived only in animals. Genetic tricks helped it spread.
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Scripps Florida Scientists Find Connection Between Gene Mutation, Key Symptoms of Autism
Scientists have known that abnormal brain growth is associated with autism spectrum disorder. However, the relationship between the two has not been well understood. Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown that mutations in a specific gene that is disrupted in some individuals with autism results in too much growth throughout the brain
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